Dr John Keesing from CSIRO Division of Marine & Atmospheric Research will be returning to KMRS in early November with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Science to undertake sampling as part of a project entitled “Sediment archive as proxies for long term change in coastal ecosystems”. John and the team will be diving within Cygnet Bay to take core samples from the benthos for their studies.

PhD student Rhiannon Kuchel and Associate Professor David Raftos of Macquarie University, Sydney, will be expanding their work on immunological and stress reactions to industry-based operations in various species of pearl oysters and will be working through KMRS on Cygnet Bay Pearls' Pinctada maxima oysters.

UWA PhD candidate Sana Dandan will be returning to Cygnet Bay to check her in-situ experiments and continue her work on the resilience of coral reef communities and coral metabolism in extreme environmental conditions.

Dr Jamie Oliver, Research Leader from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) will be visiting KMRS to get a feel for the marine environment at Cygnet Bay and in the nearby Buccaneer Archipelago as well as to gauge the research potential of KMRS.

Dr John Keesing, Damian Thomson & Mat Vanderklift from CSIRO Division of Marine & Atmospheric Research will be visiting KMRS to scope out the local marine environments and the station facilities. With on-going interest in the Kimberley, CSIRO will be looking to continue baseline biodiversity surveys conducted along the west coast of the Dampier Peninsula as well as prospects for projects in the Cygnet Bay area and further north east towards Camden Sound.

With ongoing projects from 2010-2013, Associate Professor Ryan Lowe, Professor Gary Kendrick & Malcolm McCulloch and Assistant Professor Jim Falter in April again led a team from the Ocean's Institute at the University of Western Australia researching primary production under extreme physical forcing focusing on coral, algae and seagrass. The team will be continuing their studies through two PhD research projects based out of KMRS through until 2013. PhD student Sana Dandan is focusing on corals while PhD student Napo Cayabyab is researching seagrass. Both Sana and Napo have regular trips to KMRS scheduled over the course of their PhD studies.

November 2010 – A team of independent French scientists conducted baseline biodiversity studies within Cygnet Bay to catalogue local marine species richness.

September 2010 – Associate Professor Ryan Lowe, Professors Gary Kendrick & Malcolm McCulloch and Assistant Professor Jim Falter from the University of Western Australia led a team researching primary productivity including the distribution of marine plants and algae and oceanographic circulation.

September 2010 – WAMSI, Curtin University and Airborne Research Australia (ARA) conducted an airborne hyperspectral mission of the area.

August 2010 – Dr Nicole Jones from the University of Western Australia led a team studying local physical oceanographic patterns.

August 2010 – Dr Lynnath Beckley from Murdoch University undertook a preliminary feasibility visit to scope a study on human-usage of the Dampier Peninsula.

August 2010 – Dr Steve Blake led a WAMSI team filming the base and offshore environments for promotional material.

A team affiliated with the WA Museum visited KMRS to catalogue bird species as a continuation of surveys commenced in the area in 2010.

May 2010 - Dr Jim Lowry from the Australian Museum conducted surveys on the crustacean species found in the vicinity of Cygnet Bay.